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   Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:18:55 JST Nicole Parsons

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   Both the religious & Republicans react punitively to critical thinking, investigation, doubt, & requirements for proof.

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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:18:56 JST Matthew Loxton

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     Yes to all of that.
     The question though, is why the US Right has proven to be so much more vulnerable to scams and grifters than the Left

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     Robert Link repeated this.
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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:18:57 JST Nicole Parsons

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     @mloxton @VATVSLPR @GottaLaff

     Scams, frauds, & cults all use similar techniques & create a ready-made audience for the next con.

     Repetition. Phony confidence. Suppression of doubt. Greed. Psychological & emotional manipulation. Restricting access to information. Punishment for doubt.

     Religions ask people to believe things without proof. So do political parties.

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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:18:58 JST Matthew Loxton

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     It is certainly very clear that the MAGA crowd are being feasted on by a swarm of grifters. I am not entirely sure why this is though.

     Traditionally, it was the conservatives who were more resistant to scams and outrageous claims, but either Post-Modernism has finally caught up with them and has blown up their ability to evaluate claims, or the religious side has metastasized through their body politic

     Or maybe something else

     But clearly they are easier to fool
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     Roger Moore (vatvslpr@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:18:59 JST Roger Moore

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     Everyone on the right steals from their own organization, and they've been doing it for a long time. There's a whole ecosystem of grifters attached to the far right wing of the party whose goal is to produce just enough results to keep the money flowing. It's the natural consequence of the right-wing attitude that money is everything.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:19:00 JST Laffy

     “The far-right political influencer James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, has reportedly assembled a group of election personnel and monitors in the US to secretly film voting and ballot counting procedures on election day.

     According to documents given by a whistleblower to the New York Times, the people involved would use hidden cameras “to record and then publicise video to support their claims of fraud and irregularities” at polling locations”
     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/james-okeefe-alleged-plan-secretly-film-us-voting-and-ballot-counts

     Robert Link repeated this.
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     Nicole Parsons (npars01@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:19:00 JST Nicole Parsons

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     James O'Keefe is a guy who steals from his own right wing organization
     https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/james-okeefe-accused-spending-project-veritas-money-1234819589/

     https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/james-okeefe-under-investigation-project-veritas?srsltid=AfmBOopErH_G3Zie3i5n3QuY-auLiv8-OxsQ-wtWGKM8QcPHhHHMEdT_

     https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/the-media/2023/09/06/project-veritas-james-okeefe-audit-spending-volatile/

     https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158505780/project-veritas-james-okeefe-forced-out-financial-malfeasance

     Funded by #KochNetwork.

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

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     Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 04:52:11 JST Michael Busch

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     That would be James O'Keefe the fraudster; whose previous activities include trying to bribe people so that he could report the attempted bribe?

     https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/james-okeefes-videos-attacking-mail-voting-minnesota-fall-apart-after